Dr. Krishna V. Prasad

Dr. Krishna V. Prasad

Head - Power Initiatives, Tata Consultancy
Services, Bangalore, INDIA and Advisory Board Member, International Journal of
BioSciences and Technology

Dr. Krishna V. Prasad has a B.E. in Electrical
Engineering from Bangalore University and a M.E. in Electrical Engineering from
Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore. He then went abroad to get a Master of
Science and a Doctor of Science in the Department of Systems Science and
Mathematics at the Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. His
Masters thesis was in the area of Control Systems and his Doctoral thesis was
in the area of Control of Power Systems.

He started his Professional Career as a Control Systems
and Electrical Power Systems specialist. With extensive experience in these two
areas, he moved onto the application of Enterprise-IT (information technology)
to various domains like Power, Banking, Insurance, Government
(Police,Treasuries, e-Governance), Defence, etc.Having worked through the roles
of systems analyst, R & D Engineer, Project Leader, Project Manager, and
Consultant, he has now become a BusinessManager. Having been the head of R
& D, he has worked leading edge technologies like e-Commerce, Embedded
Software, ElectronicCopyrighting, Pervasive Computing, and others from their
application point of view.

He has worked for Organizations like Control Data
Corporation's Energy Management Systems Division, USA; Kema Consulting
(formerly ECC, Inc), USA; Three C Systems (a subsidiary of Best &
Crompton); and CMC limited. He is now with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in
Bangalore, a Tata Group Company and working in the areas of providing IT
solutions and services to Power Systems.His Professional Career includes
on-site support for the Energy Control Center Application Software modules at
the National Energy Control Centre in Cairo, Egypt.

Dr. Prasad is a Senior Member of the IEEE - USA, a member
of the IET - UK, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India).